Joseph Heller Quotes

A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Now people live into their 90s and beyond. As long as I have quality of life, I'm good.

It is futile to wish for a long life, and then to give so little care to living well.

A long life is a life well spent.

It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.

There appears to exist a greater desire to live long than to live well! Measure by man's desires, he cannot live long enough; measure by his good deeds, and he has not lived long enough; measure by his evil deeds, and he has lived too long.

How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting older. They don't. Emotional pain or numbness are symptoms of living the wrong life, not a long life.

In 1990, Howard Friedman and Leslie Martin, two psychologists at the University of California, Riverside, embarked on a research project within a research project, seeking answers to the question, 'What makes for a long life?'

It is a bad idea to live too long. Few carry it off well.

My parents lived very long lives. And good lives, too. They're great people, but good lives.

The secret to living long is to have something to live for.

Life expectancy in America is about 79, we should be able to live to 92. Somewhere along the line, we're leaving 13 years on the table. So my quest is -- how do we get those extra 13 years? And how do we make those extra 13 years good years?

Just because the years are passing doesn't mean that the quality of our lives must automatically go downhill.

The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.

It matters not how long we live but how.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. I wish you all very good lives.

A successful life depends less on how long you live than on how much you can pack into the time you have.

It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.

They proved that if you quit smoking, it will prolong your life. What they haven't proved is that a prolonged life is a good thing. I haven't seen the stats on that yet.

Not a soul takes thought how well he may live- only how long: yet a good life might be everybody's, a long one can be nobody's.

Come on 'long prosperous life!'